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Thank you @PiHiker, for saving me the time of watching the linked video to figure out how nutritious was the clickbait!

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[...] the wildest part. Equations that describe how black holes scramble information produce patterns that look identical to Riemann's zeros. Nobody fully understands why. But it suggests the proof might not come from a mathematician with a notebook. It might come from a physicist working backwards from a black hole.

The secret pattern in prime numbers, unlocked by a black hole. Not a bad story.

It is a bad story, unless you hate humanity so much that you believe credit belongs to the shape imposed by operators upon the algebras of equations describing spacetime, rather than... the physicist, mathematician, or kid babysitting the datacentre that shits out a master proof-turd for skeptical verification by people.

Even the word "unlocked" pisses me off in that story. The similar patterns resulting from two different equations aren't lock and key, even though someone who "listens to the music" just right might find that one simplifies the other; however, from the perspective of mortal humans, the vast majority of whom hear only different hues of noise from either phenomenon, they're both locks, and the genius not only knows how to use one of them as a hammer, but also where to hit.

It is a bad story, unless you hate humanity so much that you believe credit belongs to the shape imposed by operators upon the algebras of equations describing spacetime, rather than... the physicist, mathematician, or kid babysitting the datacentre that shits out a master proof-turd for skeptical verification by people.

Wow! no mercy for us laymans

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149 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 24 Apr

feels, bad, man?

right in the feels // write out yer feels

SN is only for podcasts and reels

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